It’s a community conference

The conference focused around the Australian service design community, with presentations by local speakers and opportunities to share experiences with each other.

What is service design?

Service design is, as the title suggests, the design of services that are to be used by people.

Service design is a design practice focused on the design of the interactions people have with organisations – individually and as a system – to create a service. Services, and service design projects, will often incorporate some type of physical or digital product, but are broader than the product itself.

Service design may cover the design of the front-end service (what a potential customer sees) as well as some or all of the back-end processes needed to fully realise the service.

As a design discipline, many of the methods and approaches of service design are similar to those used in other design disciplines such as product design, and will be familiar to people working in all areas of design. For example, service design projects all need to understand people and their context, describe the journey a customer may take, design a solution and document it, work with related projects, communicate design solutions and ultimately implement the solution (and manage the change).

The distinctive feature of service design is it’s focus on the holistic service.

If you haven’t come across service design before, here’s a great overview: What is service design?

Who was it for

If you are in a role where your recommendations or decisions determine what service will be provided to people, or how they experience that service, this conference was for you. You might be called one of the following, or manage them: